BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Dante Alighieri Society of Washington - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://danteseattle.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Dante Alighieri Society of Washington REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200429T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200429T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T010853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T222106Z UID:10000123-1588185000-1588192200@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:Canceled - April 29\, 2020 Italian Language Meetiing DESCRIPTION:When: April 29\, 2020Speaker: Gianfranco FoddaiTopic: Sardegna \nAbout the Speaker:\nGianfranco comes from Tissi\, with a population of 2000\, located in the north-west area of Sardegna (Sardinia). He moved to Seattle on November 2017\, after having married his wife Jen. He has been working as a professional musician since he was on his 20s. Nowadays\, he teaches music for Fingerprint School of Music in Seattle\, performs with a bunch of local artists\, and enjoys spending a lot of time with his one year old daughter Lucille. \nAbout the Presentation:\nThe talk will start with a very brief introduction about Sardinia’s most characteristic aspects. After that Gianfranco will talk about Sardinia geography and how it has helped to preserve its unique culture\, history and art\, at least before mass media. The talk will finish with a short music performance of a couple Sardinian popular songs. URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-italian-language-meetiing/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Italian Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200415T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200415T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T010753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T222157Z UID:10000122-1586975400-1586982600@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:Postponed to May 13 - Annual General Meeting DESCRIPTION:When: April 15\, 2020Speaker: Board of DirectorsTopic: Annual General Meeting \n  URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-english-language-meeting-2/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Language Meeting,Gatherings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200325T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T010653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T222415Z UID:10000121-1585161000-1585168200@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:Canceled - March 25\, 2020 Italian Language Meetiing DESCRIPTION:When: March 25\, 2020Speaker: TBDTopic: TBD URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-italian-language-meetiing-2/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Italian Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200311T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200311T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T010553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200409T222529Z UID:10000120-1583951400-1583958600@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:Postponed - March 11\, 2020 English Language Meeting DESCRIPTION:When: POSTPONED \nSpeakers: Pat Hoffman \nTopic: Seated at Lorenzo’s Table – From Farm to Table \nAbout the Speaker:\nPat grew up on the east coast and had a long career in immunological research at both for-profit and non-profit institutions. After a year of retirement\, she started a 2nd career as a part-time paralegal for a small law firm and is now working part-part-time\, giving her more time to travel.  Pat is a Dante member whose passion for Italy was ignited in 2002 when her daughter\, Kelcey\, moved to Italy to work in Rome.  Eighteen years and numerous visits later\, the desire to discover the beauty of Italy’s diverse regions is still strong and the love of the art\, food\, wine and people continues to grow and satisfy.  She is delighted that she is able to have conversations with “la gente” using her modest command of the Italian language. \nAbout the Presentation:\nFarmerChef Lorenzo Polegri owns Ristorante Zeppelin in the enchanting Umbrian town of Orvieto\, Italy.  Invited several times to cook at the James Beard house in NYC\, he also cooked for President Obama at the White House in 2010. \nRistorante Zeppelin is home to Chef Lorenzo’s internship program for culinary students and his cooking school\, featuring afternoon cooking classes and one-week and two-week “culinary adventures” that include cooking classes and visits to the sources that produce the ingredients used in Chef Lorenzo’s recipes.  Join six friends on their excellent adventure who spent two weeks with Chef Lorenzo immersed in the history and culinary experiences of the FarmerChef. URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-english-language-meeting-3/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200212T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200212T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T010353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200326T185750Z UID:10000118-1581532200-1581539400@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:February 12\, 2020 English Language Meeting DESCRIPTION:When: February 12\, 2020Speaker: Prof. Lloyd HowardTopic: The Power of Music on the Shore of Dante’s Purgatory \nAbout the Speaker:\nLloyd Howard received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1976\, after which\, the subsequent year\, he was appointed to a tenure-track position at the University of Victoria\, where he taught until his retirement at the rank of Professor in 2016.  Along with teaching in the Department over 39 years\, he served as Chair of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies for a total of 15 years\, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities for six-month terms in 1997 and 2000\, and Director of the Medieval Studies Program for 3 years.  His research focussed initially on the extant poetry of Guido Cavalcanti\, before turning to Dante’s Commedia.  His approach to interpreting this work follows an alternate\, non-linear journey through Dante’s three realms of the afterlife.  The signposts that mark the way consist of recurrent linguistic patterns\, or formulas\, by which the reader is guided through the space that comprises the poem’s 100 cantos.  Along with numerous articles\, he has written two books adopting this method: Formulas of Repetition in Dante’s Commedia: Signposted Journeys across Textual Space (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2001); Virgil the Blind Guide: Marking the Way through the Divine Comedy (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2010).  Scholarly recognition of his methodology includes the former book being chosen as an “Outstanding Title” for 2002 by the American Library Association\, and one of its chapters being selected by Harold Bloom to form part of Bloom’s edition on the Commedia: Dante Alighieri\, published in 2011.  His articles in more recent years have been published by Letteratura Italiana Antica in Rome. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About the Presentation:\nProfessor Howard will begin his talk with a brief description of Dante’s world and how the Commedia was transmitted both in written form and orally by singing Dante’s text. He will then turn to the second canto of the Purgatorio\, where Dante introduces the soul of the musician\, Casella\, who\, while living\, sang Dante’s love poems. He will explore how Casella’s “encore” performance of Dante’s song\, “Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona\,” goes wrong\, as opposed to the Psalm “In exitu Israel de Aegypto\,”sung in tonus peregrinus by all the delivered pilgrim souls earlier.  Lastly\, Professor Howard will discuss the Paradiso where\, by flight through the music enhanced spheres\, Dante\, a famed writer of worldly love songs\, reaches the Celestial Rose and\, in contrast to when his attention was focused on unworthy loves\, the once straying poet fixes his attentive eyes upward to the Virgin Mary\, whose intercession brings Dante the pilgrim home to God. URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-english-language-meeting-4/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200108T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200108T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T010153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T175746Z UID:10000116-1578508200-1578515400@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:January 8\, 2020 English Language Meeting DESCRIPTION:When: January 8\, 2020Speaker: Andrea AldrichTopic: Italian Gardens \nAbout the Speaker:\nAndrea Aldrich\, tour guide and founder\, has been guiding small groups to her favorite destinations in Italy for more than ten years. She has lived and studied in Florence\, speaks Italian and has traveled extensively throughout the regions of Italy. A background as an artist and teacher has been instrumental in her ability to develop tours that give a greater understanding of this country’s rich art\, culture and history. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Through photographs and narrative we will explore the history and the cultural shifts that influenced the design of some of the most incredible gardens in the world. Our journey will take us from the Italian Renaissance to the twenty-first century. URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-english-language-meeting-5/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191211T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191211T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T010053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T175735Z UID:10000115-1576089000-1576096200@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:December 11\, 2019 Festa di Natale DESCRIPTION:Our annual Festa di Natale is this Wednesday\, December 11\nAs usual we’ll celebrate the season with the traditional Italian game of tombola – a kind of Italian Bingo for those not familiar with the game.  There are several prizes to be awarded so you might be a winner!  It’s lots of fun for all. \nBruce Leone will be our tomboliere this year. \nAnd of course we’ll have Italian Christmas music.  Be prepared to sing as Joyce Ramee will lead us in a few Italian Christmas songs. \nTraditionally the Festa meal is a potluck.  In the spirit of the Italian love of food\, please bring along a main course\, antipasto or dessert.  And a bottle of vino to share is always a good addition.  The microwave and oven are available if any of the dishes need to be heated up at the last minute.  You can always count on a lot of great food to add to the holiday merriment at our Festa. \nAnd to toast the spirit of the season\, there’ll be a few bottles of prosecco to start things off in style. \nIf you plan on attending\, please indicate by: \n\nregistering online here or\, \ncalling our Reservation Line at our NEW number\, (206) 289-0419 or\nemailing your request to our NEW reservation email\, reserve@danteseattle.org.   \n\nAnd let us know how many are in your party. \nFesta will take place in the Parish Social Hall at St. Patrick’s Church\, 815 East Edgar Street\, on the North side of Capitol Hill. \nParking is available in St. Patrick’s parking lot\, off E. Edgar street. The meetings take place in the Parish Hall\, located in the basement of the church which is entered from the West side of the church from the parking lot. \nTo reach St Patrick’s from the North\, follow I-5 S.  Take exit 168A for Boylston Ave toward Roanoke St.  Merge onto Boylston\, turn left at light onto E Roanoke St.  Turn left at the first cross street onto Harvard Ave E. and then take the first right onto E. Edgar Street. \nTo reach St. Patrick’s from the South\, follow I-5 N.  Take exit 168A for Lakeview Blvd E.  Turn left onto Lakeview Blvd E\, and continue onto Boylston Ave E.   Turn right at the light onto E Roanoke St. Turn left at the first cross street onto Harvard Ave. E. and then take the first right onto E. Edgar Street.\nThe festivities officially start at 6:30.  Your help setting up before the meeting (and especially in cleaning up afterwards)  is always appreciated.  So come early to start celebrating. \nA presto –  \nDan DeMatteis\,\nPresidente\,\nDante Alighieri Society of Washington URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-english-language-meeting-6/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191120T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191120T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191213T174318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191213T174318Z UID:10000132-1574274600-1574281800@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:November 20\, 2019 Italian Language Meeting with Il Punto DESCRIPTION:A SPECIAL ITALIAN PROGRAM – MILANO – SPONSORED by the DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY and Il PUNTO WEDNESDAY\, NOVEMBER 20 at St. Patrick’s Church\, Social Hall\, 815 East Edgar Street\, Seattle 98102 \nFederica Gabardi\, a Milan native and a Women’s Empowerment Expert will be our guest speaker. \nMilan is glamorous\, trendy and fashionable.   It is very much appreciated by tourists who have rewarded it with a boom in arrivals: about 8.4 million in 2017.   This number has guaranteed Milan the fourteenth place in the ranking of the most visited cities in the world\, once again surpassing Rome at seventeenth with 7.3 million visitors. \nIn short\, Milan has proven to have secret weapons that are not limited to the attractiveness of the businesses that the city has always hosted:  from the Romanesque churches to Milan Cathedral\, from the Castello Sforzesco to Leonardo’s locks along the Naviglio\, from the hidden courtyards to the award-winning “Bosco Verticale.” \nThis presentation will encourage your love of  Milan and help you discover what is the basis of its place in the panorama of the great European and world cities. \nTopics: \n\nHistory of Milan;\nMilan’s evolution: from the Lombard capital to a world-famous city\nMonuments and places of interest\nMilan of the Milanese.\n\nEVENT DETAILS \nThe evening will begin with food and conversation at 6:30.  There is no cost for the meeting\, but you are encouraged to bring along an antipasto\, dolce or vino to share.  The presentation which will be in Italian will start at 7:30. \nThe meeting will take place in the Parish Social Hall at St. Patrick’s Church\, 815 East Edgar Street\, on the North side of Capitol Hill. \nParking is available in St. Patrick’s parking lot\, off of E. Edgar street. The meetings take place in the Parish Hall\, located in the basement of the church and is entered on the West side of the church from the parking lot. \nTo reach St Patrick’s from the North\, follow I-5 S.  Take exit 168A for Boylston Ave toward Roanoke St.  Merge onto Boylston\, turn left at light onto E Roanoke St.  Turn left at the first cross street onto Harvard Ave E. and then take the first right onto E. Edgar Street. \nTo reach St. Patrick’s from the South\, follow I-5 N.  Take exit 168A for Lakeview Blvd E.  Turn left onto Lakeview Blvd E\, and continue onto Boylston Ave E.   Turn right at the light onto E Roanoke St. Turn left at the first cross street onto Harvard Ave. E. and then take the first right onto E. Edgar Street.. \nFeel free to come early to help set up the room and start visiting.  And\, in any case\, please come. \nA presto –  \nDan DeMatteis\,\nPresident\, Dante Alighieri Society of Washington URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/november-20-2019-italian-language-meeting-with-il-punto/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Italian Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191113T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T012454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191212T172427Z UID:10000130-1573669800-1573677000@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:November 13\, 2019 English Language Meeting DESCRIPTION:Dante Alighieri Society English Language Meeting Chris Kelly Topic: Italy Invades Italy Invades is an action packed history of Italy’s military involvements throughout the ancient and modern worlds. From the empire building of the Romans\, through the globe-spanning Age of Exploration\, to the multinational cooperation of NATO\, Italy has conquered andexplored countries as diverse and far-ranging as Cape Verde and Mongolia and Uruguay. With the additional guide of maps and photographs\, the reader can visually follow the Italians as they conquer the world. Christopher Kelly\, the former chairman of Chyron Corporation\, has had a lifelong passion for military history. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley\, Kelly is Italian by marriage. He lives in London and Seattle\, when he is not invading new cities to promote his published works. URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-english-language-meeting-7/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191023T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191023T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191006T002454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200831T183450Z UID:10000114-1571855400-1571862600@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:October 23\, 2019 Italian Language Meetiing DESCRIPTION:Claudio Mazzola Topic: Italian Cinema and Immigration Italy\, perhaps more than any other European country\, has been at the forefront of the immigration debate in Europe. Immigration has been the subject ofnumerous Italian novels\, documentaries and films. Our speaker\, Claudio Mazzola\, will provide historical background on immigration in Italy and discuss how cinema has dealt with this issue. Dr. Claudio Mazzola received his Laurea” in English from the University of Milan in 1981. He also received a degree in cinema studies from the City University of Milan. Claudio went on to receive a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington in 1986. His area of expertise is Contemporary Italian fiction and Italian Cinema. He has published a number of articles on those topics.” URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-italian-language-meetiing-5/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Gatherings,Italian Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191009T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191009T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20190925T231200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191212T172609Z UID:10000113-1570645800-1570653000@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:An Avant-Garde Italia: The Futurists\, Modern Art and the Promise of the 20th Century DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rob Prufer \nIn 1909 the writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published his Futurist Manifesto\, in which he denounced the oppressive weight of Italy’s past and advocated a program of radical artistic\, social and technological innovation. Soon\, painters\, sculptors\, writers and musicians joined Marinetti in a quest to re-fashion Italian culture and are known collectively as The Futurists. What are we to make of their whirlwind of artistic output? What impact did they have? How Italian was this movement of passionate Italians? URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/an-avant-garde-italia-the-futurists-modern-art-and-the-promise-of-the-20th-century/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Language Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190911T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190911T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20190906T002454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200831T183747Z UID:10000112-1568226600-1568233800@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:September 11\, 2019 English Language Meeting DESCRIPTION:Dante Alighieri Society English Language Meeting Dominic Minotti Dominico Minotti Famous Women of Italian Descent Kicking off this year’s schedule will be a presentation by Domenico Minotti (Nick) on “Famous Women of Italian Descent”. This will be the basis for this year’s Festa Italiana quiz that Nick has been creating for the past few years to use at our booth. For Festa\, reference information will be available to help visitors pick the woman who fits the description. The names of folks with successful entries (8 out of 10) will be entered into a drawing for a free dinner at one of our Dante events. The September 11 presentation for Dante\, however\, will be a straightforward talk about these 10 women\, 6 well known\, 2 less known and 2 probably new to most Dante members. In the late 1920s\, Nick’s parents emigrated from Sant’Angelo\, Limosano\, a small hilltop town in Molise. The population at that time was about 1000 but is now 345 as Nick learned on a visit this summer. The family spoke their dialect at home. Nick studied Italian at Columbia University and Perugia and gotlots of practice while on Fulbright study grants in Milan in the mid 60’s.Nick returned to the states and to his first love\, medicine\, at Georgetown University and came to Seattle in 1976 to work at the US Public Health Hospital on Beacon Hill\, better known as the Marine Hospital. He and his father Pasquale would attend Dante meetings back then but took a break until retirement a few years ago. Nick serves as a Consigliere for our Dante group. URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-english-language-meeting-9/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:English Language Meeting,Gatherings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190424T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190424T203000 DTSTAMP:20260619T023653 CREATED:20191206T012454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191212T173522Z UID:10000127-1556130600-1556137800@danteseattle.org SUMMARY:April 24\, 2019 Italian Language Meeting DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matteo FitzGeraldTopic: La Sicilia \nUn’esplorazione della Sicilia\, conosciuta come Granaio degli Imperi”\, e nell’antico Greco\, la Trinacria. È la più grande regione d’Italia e la quarta più popolosa\, con oltre5 milioni di persone. Esploreremo la storia\, la lingua\, i terroir e la cultura della Sicilia. La Sicilia ha una storia ricca e antica\, risalente alle tribù originarie che si trasferirono sull’isola\, all’era classica\, quando la Grecia\, poi i Romani\, mantennero ampie presenze nell’area. Nelle ere moderne\, l’isola è stata occupata da una varietà di imperi\, ed è di enorme importanza strategica nel Mediterraneo\, a causa di numerosi porti diacque profonde\, la posizione nel centro del mare\, e la vasta generosità agricola del terra. La lingua siciliana ha influenze dal greco\, italiano\,arabo e altro ancora. Ci sarà un sacco di tempo per domande e discussioni.La presentazione sarà in italiano e in siciliano\, e ci sarà una dispensa con parole in inglese\, italiano e\, per alcune parti\, in siciliano. Perquanto riguarda la cultura\, ad esempio due vincitori del Premio Nobel perla letteratura (in totale sei dall’Italia) sono nati in Sicilia\, conferiti nel 1934 a Luigi Pirandello (Agrigento\, dove si trova la Valle dei Templi)\, e nel 1959 a Salvatore Quasimodo (Modica\, noto per l’architettura barocca e dove il cioccolato è fatto nel modo antico). \nBio: Matteo FitzGerald è di origine siciliana (madre) e irlandese-americana (padre). Ha centinaia di migliaia di parenti in Sicilia (la famiglia allargata della madre) e ha vissuto circa 7 anni della sua vita in Sicilia e in Italia\, principalmente nella sua città natale siciliana nella regione di Catania. Ha conseguito una laurea e si è laureato presso il dipartimento di studi italiani dell’Università di Washington (Classe del 2012) e anche in Studi internazionali.Attualmente è membro del Board of the Italian Festival of Seattle (Festa Italiana)\, ex 3 volte Presidente del Club Italiano dell’Università di Washington\, e anche\, ex Trustee & Sentinel della casetta Seattle Fedele degli Figli e Figlie d’Italia. \nSpeaker: Matteo FitzGerald: Topic: Sicily \nAn exploration of Sicily\, the largest Mediterranean Island\, known as the “Granary of Empires”\, and\, in the ancient Greek\, the Triangle. It is the largest region of Italy\, and the 4th most populous\, with over 5 million people. We will explore the history\, language\, terroirs and culture of Sicily. Sicily has a rich and ancient history\, going back to the original tribes that moved onto the island\, to the Classical era\, when Greece\, then the Romans\,maintained large presences in the area. In the modern eras\, the island has been occupied by a variety of empires\, and it is of tremendous strategic importance in the Mediterranean\, due to several deep water ports\, location in the center of the sea\, and the vast agricultural bounty of the land.The Sicilian language has influences from the Greek\, Italian\, Arabic and more. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. The presentation will be in Italian and in Sicilian\, and there will be a handout with words in English\, Italian and\, for some parts\, in Sicilian. As for culture\, for example two Nobel prize winners in Literature (of the total of six from Italy) were born in Sicily\, awarded in 1934 to Luigi Pirandello (Agrigento\, where the Valley of the Temples is located)\, and in 1959 to Salvatore Quasimodo (Modica\, known for Baroque architecture and where chocolate is made in the ancient way). \nBio: \nMatteo FitzGerald is of Sicilian (mother) & Irish-American (father) descent. He has hundreds to thousands ofrelatives in Sicily (his mother’s extended family) and has lived approximately 7 years of his life off and on in Sicily & Italy\, mainly around his Sicilian hometown in the Catania region. He holds a Bachelor’s degree\, and is a graduate of the University of Washington Italian Studies department (Class of 2012) and also International Studies. He is currently on the Board of the Italian Festival of Seattle (Festa Italiana)\, formerly a 3 time President of the University of Washington Italian Club\, and also a former Trustee & Sentinel of the Sons of Italy Seattle Fedele Lodge.” URL:https://danteseattle.org/event/dante-alighieri-society-italian-language-meetiing-7/ LOCATION:St Patrick Catholic Church\, 815 E Edgar St\, Seattle\, WA\, 98122\, United States CATEGORIES:Italian Language Meeting END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR